I'm installing Links on some more machines and having a little difficulty. Hoping someone can coach me through it.
First problem, on the http://links-lang.org/ homepage, it says in big letters "Get Links / 0.8 Merchiston" which sounds great. But clicking that gives me a page that says "Current as of 0.7.3"--presumably that's the Links version?. (Also it says "Installing Links on a fresh VM" which doesn't necessarily apply—I might be using real hardware—does it matter?) The front page also suggests "opam install links" but I've hit a few snags with that, too. I guess I should install opam from apt-get? But this doesn't necessarily give me the correct version. "opam install links" gives me 'links is not available because your system doesn't comply with ocaml-version >= "4.06.0".' This <page http://ocaml.org/docs/install.html> suggests that no Ubuntu versions have an Ocaml version later than 4.05. I feel like "Ubuntu" is a relatively tame choice of platform, so am I missing some easy path to getting it installed. The instructions at <https://github.com/links-lang/links/wiki/Installing-Links-on-a-fresh-VM> say they work on Ubuntu 16.04, but they also seem to say that Ocaml 4.06 is an easy thing to "switch" to. Is there any easy advice for getting this going on my platform? What platform is known to be the easiest to install Links? Thanks in advance! Ezra _______________________________________________ links-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/links-users
